Fifth Generation

153. Lavinia Bryan^183,184. Birth: 15 June 1827, Virginia.¹⁸⁴

It is a guess that Lavinia Bryan was the daughter of Benjamin K. Bryan and Elizabeth (Polly) Brawford. There were two unknown females age 15-19 enumerated household of Benjamin K. Bryan in 1840 in the census for Marion County, Missouri. Between 1840 and 1850, there were four marriages in Marion County for Bryan women. Two of the four women have been identified as daughters of Lewis Bryan and Polly Cartmell. The other two Bryan women who were married in Marion County between 1840 and 1850 are therefore candidates to have been the daughters of Benjamin K. Bryan. Lavinia Bryan was married in 1843 in Marion County, she and her husband were enumerated in the 1850 census in Marion County, and she was not a daughter of Lewis Bryan and Polly Cartmell. (RGB)

Census: 1840, Marion County, Missouri, Age 15-19, enumerated Household of her father Benjamin K. Bryan.

Census: 1850, Marion County, Missouri, Lavinia B. 22 f w VA.

Death: 8 August 1860, age 33, Marion County, Missouri.¹⁸⁴

Lavinia Bryan and Jessie Ewing Marriage: 18 July 1843, Marion County, Missouri.

Jessie Ewing^183,184, son of William Ewing and Elizabeth Bryan,. Birth: about 1810, Virginia.

Census: 1850, Marion County, Missouri, Union Twp, Marion County, Missouri, 6 Nov 1850; page 356b, dwelling number 1390, family number 1442; Ewing Jesse 40 m w farmer $2800 VA; Lavinia B. 22 f w VA; Frances 5 f w MO; Mary 4 f w MO; William B. 2 m w MO.

Death: 1 January 1857, age 47, Marion County, Missouri.¹⁸⁴

Lavinia Bryan-48511 and Jessie Ewing-48510 had the following children: